This is the first announcement of The Style Conference. Please forward the cfp to anyone you think might be interested & post to other relevant lists. Thanks, Laura THE STYLE CONFERENCE, to be held July 25-28, 1997 in Bowling Green, Ohio, will bring together people working in feminist and cultural studies, postmodernist and queer theory, design, media, and other fields around the new work being done on style. We hope to provide a unique interdisciplinary forum that will also incorporate the major critiques of that work. Our notion of it is primarily bodily and performative, but we invite as wide a variety of material, cultural, and discursive experiences as possible around the theme of Theorizing Style: Pleasures & Dangers. Potential topic areas include: performing style, age & generation, styling desire, fashion/fun/guilt, academic style, queer looks, bodily parameters, designs for living, virtual style, appropriation/exploitation/commodification. Proposals welcomed in any format: individual papers, preconstituted sessions, workshops, roundtables, film & video, performance, multimedia presentations, etc. Deadline for 250-word proposals: December 1, 1996. For more information: Laura Stempel Mumford, <[log in to unmask]>, (608) 238-3612; or Ellen E. Berry, <[log in to unmask]>, (419) 372-2620. ---- To signoff SCREEN-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF SCREEN-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]